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The Pentecostal City

T he Pentecostal churches I visited on Palm Sunday in New York City were all building makeshift room dividers or shifting them around like sets in a play -- to accommodate the expected crowds.

In a way, New York is being similarly redesigned to accommodate Pentecostal Christians. Churches have multiplied citywide, springing up (to mention only a few places) in a collapsed tenement, in a no man's land next to a housing project, in an...